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'Mount indefinite protests over lenient Mubarak sentence'
Sunday June 03, 2012 08:26:21 PM,
RIA Novosti
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Cairo: Egyptian revolutionary movements have called for an indefinite
protest in Tahrir Square in the centre of Cairo over "lenient"
sentences handed to ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his allies.
Opponents of the former Mubarak regime and also revolutionary and
youth activists started to gather in Tahrir Square and in the
central squares of Egypt's other cities Saturday after the Cairo
Criminal Court announced verdicts for Mubarak and his allies.
Several thousand demonstrators gathered in Tahrir Square by
Saturday evening, denouncing acquittal verdicts for several
interior ministry officials, and the life terms for the
84-year-old Mubarak and the former interior minister, which they
said were "too lenient".
The revolutionaries said the protest should continue until the
authorities met all of the "people's demands" that included the
termination of presidential elections and the formation of the
presidential council from among the candidates that gained the
largest number of votes during the first round and from among
independent public figures.
The protesters urged reorganisation of the country's judicial
system and the formation of revolutionary tribunals to hold trials
for all the officials of the former Mubarak regime.
Mubarak was overthrown in February 2011 after an 18-day uprising.
Over 800 people were killed during the revolution, many of them
protesters shot dead by security forces.
After the sentence was announced, Mubarak had a nervous breakdown
and then suffered a heart attack.
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